THE WORD IS NEAR YOU
The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. What are you doing with it? The word of faith formed the worlds, and by it the elders obtained a good report with manifold exploits.
The very word became flesh, died, resurrected and lives forevermore, to be your supply- in your mouth and heart. The word is in you right now! Fellowship with the Word, and with the Spirit- your unending supply.
THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT
Luke 4:18-19 NKJV
‘’The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."
The Spirit of the Lord is the anointing to do. He is the supply that we have to live the life (zoe) of God. It is by the supply of the Spirit that we live as sons and kings. It is by the supply of the Spirit that we live Christ.
We have dwelt so long in the realm of the senses trying to live the ‘Christian life’, and have often ended up on the path of delusional religion which is apart from Christ. That is, we have lived a life of the senses, which is not of the faith.
But we have the supply of the Spirit - the Anointing of the Holy One to live Christ. Yes, to live Christ, not to live like Christ, not a photocopy of the original, but as the original. We are not called to live like Christ, NO! That would be living in the shadows of our identity and walking on the side ways of Zoe. Rather, we are called to live Christ, to live the life of God in us. It’s either you live Christ or not, you can’t live as if you have the life of God. You either live the life or you don’t.
The truth is, we have the life of God (Zoe) in us, now! For, He who has the Son has life, since Jesus came that we may have life, and have it more abundantly. (1 John 5:12, John 10:10)
We have not been living the life because we have been living apart from the supply of the Spirit, in the realm of the senses and what appeals to the natural mind.
What then is the supply of the Spirit?
Jesus, in His earthly walk, never operated with the senses. When He saw the multitude of over 5000 people, He didn’t worry about how He would feed them with bread and fish that could hardly satisfy a few people. When He saw the man with the withered hand, He didn’t say, ‘oh! What a withered hand!’’ and shake His head, neither did He say to the man born blind, ‘what a long-standing problem you’ve got! You must have lived a hard life’. Jesus never allowed His senses to dominate. If He was a ‘sense-man’, He wouldn’t have seen the joy set before Him, endured the cross and scorned its shame. (Hebrews 12:2) He saw, He heard and felt- for He was a man as we are, yet He was always in control. The Spirit was always in charge.
How did He operate in the Spirit?
Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. (John 5:19 NKJV emphasis mine)
Yes, He saw the withered hand, but He also saw God healing the hand. There must have been a second eye, an eye that sees differently, apart from the senses; an eye that sees God and what He does per time. The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do- we can do nothing of ourselves but what we see the Father do. This is just what we do- NOTHING, when we try to do things of ourselves and operate by the senses.
Look at this:
For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. (John 5: 20, 21 NKJV, emphasis mine)
The Father willingly shows the Son what He does, because He loves Him. There is a realm beyond the natural, a realm where we show-and-tell with the Father!
Paul said, we look to the things which are not seen. (2 Corinthians 4:18). This eye sees the unseen, the spiritual and eternal. Also, ‘’ we walk by faith, and not by sight’’ (2 Corinthians 5:7). This means that there are two ways to walk - by faith or by sight. Both walks have different supplies and results.
Faith is supplied by the word of Christ while sight is supplied by the natural, transient and physical. Faith is the eye that sees what the Father does. It sees the unseen, eternal and spiritual. Hebrews 11:1 amplified version, says ‘’…faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses’’. Faith is how we walk in the realm of the unseen. It is how we access the supply of the Spirit.
THE SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS OF THE SPIRIT
Faith is produced when Christ is proclaimed (Rom 10: 17). Any word or doctrine that is not full of grace and truth cannot produce faith, because it is not of Christ.
We have the supply of the Spirit. We access and walk in the Spirit by the faith (of Christ) produced by the word of Christ.
When we receive the Word, and believe it, we do not just put it aside on the shelf to gather dust. No!
We having the Spirit of faith, (2 Corinthians 4:13) put the word in our mouth and speak; confessing, meditating and watering it by praying in the Spirit till it forms in us. It may take some time, but we keep speaking the word of faith. It’s worth more than the wait and patience. It gets to a point where it controls our being h we literally become one with it, such that our actions and inactions are in line with that word. Our actions, words, thoughts etc. are the word. Our being is in a state of revolt to going against the word, such that we cannot but be that word! This is living the word - living Christ.
This is how we who have received the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life as Kings, and minister as Royal priests unto God.
So, get the Word of Christ to you, get into the word, and get the word into you. Fellowship with the Word and Spirit, and with the eye of faith, you will see the unseen, the eternal, the Father and what He does per time.
The supply of the Spirit is Elohim - the Godhead. The Lord is the Spirit, the Lord is not apart from the Father, neither is the Spirit apart from the Father. Also, we are not apart from the Godhead, for in Christ the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form. We are in Him, and He in us. The Lord, the Spirit and the Father together with us make up the supply of the Spirit. Whatever you need, know that you’ve got the supply of the Spirit to meet it.
THE SPIRIT IS THE SUPPLY
The Spirit is my supply. I do not lack. Elohim is my supply, my supply knows no end and cannot be exhausted. My supply is not limited in His applications; He meets all and fills all. Shalom! (selah)
Dara Makinde
